What songs do you want played at your funeral?

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I had to make a list in health class because I would not draw my tombstone. It was entertaining. I like to think that I could spread my tastes even after I'm dead.

― Maria, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Teengenerate" by the Dictators. "Dirty Deeds" by AC/DC.

― duane, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Maria I cant remember last time you posted a question. That said I've only been here a month or so.

Er..........I get embarassed answering any questions to do with music with the word Spiritualized.

What about Mogwai. Contemplative and offensive. Suits my funeral perfectly.

― Ronan, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Why were you supposed to be drawing tombstones in a health class?

― Kris, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ronan, I have been bankrupt of ideas. I blame it on school.

We were drawing tombstones in health class because it was supposed to help us cope with the idea of death or something. I don't know. It was stupid.

― Maria, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i want the spice girls "who do you think you are" played at my funeral. i want my funeral to be a party, where all my loved ones get smashed and make lots of toasts to how great i was. everyone MUST dance or no booze for you.

― di, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, I dunno. Funeral Tango? It might be funny. Probably not.

― Ally C, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Assuming that my funeral includes a lavish memorial concert to commemorate my immense contribution to the music industry...

juno - the sea looked like lead super furry animals - fragile happiness built to spill - stab the microphones - karl blau the dears - end of a hollywood bedtime story and, the grand finale: DJ Shadow and Kool Keith (since UNKLE are dufunct) - guns blazing

― Simon H., Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"killed by death," of course.

― jess, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i will not let this insult to kool g. rap stand.

― ethan, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I want Hanle y to serenade my mourners with songs chockful of his scatological non-sequiturs. That, or Metal Machine Music. Anyone getting anything in my will will have to sit through either or they will be disinherited!

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

whatever, i'll be dead anyway.

― nathalie (nathalie), Saturday, 6 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Johnny Cash

― anthony, Saturday, 6 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'ouija board, ouija board' by Morrissey.

― The Dirty Vicar, Saturday, 6 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

tad you bastard, you stole my MMM! let's have a jopint funeral.

― Geoff, Saturday, 6 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

guess it should be 'i put a spell on you' cuz some earthy feelings are supposed to defeat our biological limitations.

― francesco, Saturday, 6 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Boston - More Than A Feeling.

― jel, Saturday, 6 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Super Furries said they'd want "Stayin' Alive"!

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Saturday, 6 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!!

― mark s, Saturday, 6 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Parasites Will Be Excited When You're Dead", Modest Mouse, just to tease my family. "Heroin", The Velvet Underground, because it's one of my favorites. I think it's more of a song to be living to, though.

― capricious pants, Saturday, 6 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Though I shall leave clear instructions that none of my future grand kids will be allowed to play a joke, by putting on my old Morbid Angel tape. The last time I played that, there was a freak hail storm.

― jel, Saturday, 6 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've been thinking about this a lot the past week. For the processional hymn, when they roll the casket in, I'd like "The Theme from the Good, the Bad & the Ugly". I'm a bit sick of it, actually, but in this context it'd be nice. And it's good to start off with a song everyone knows. When the gifts are brought up to the altar, I'd have "Sugar Sugar" by the Archies as the offertory hymn. During communion, I'd like "No. 1 in Heaven" by Sparks. And during the post- communion reflective period, it'd be either a Bowie instrumental like "Warzawa" or "Weeping Wall", or the Monkees' "Porpoise Song" or Fairport Convention's "Farewell Farewell". Finally, for the recessional, when they roll me out, it'd be Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky"--something more upbeat to get everyone revved up for the kickass reception afterwards.

I don't know if I could get away with all this at a Catholic mass, though. So Maria, what was on your list?

― Arthur, Saturday, 6 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Too capricious, I want 'Heroin' too, but 'ATP' could do fantastically well...however, I agree on the idea of a party, or better, a big meal where my favourite menu should be served, how egocentric is that? They should play 'tainted love' and 'being boring' and 'dishes' too.

― Laetitia, Saturday, 6 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

mark s = maggie t?

― Graham, Saturday, 6 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

mark s = willow as you well know

― mark s, Saturday, 6 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Weird Al.

― Mike Hanle y, Sunday, 7 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Take on Me" by Aha, and "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" by George Michael.

― rainy, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"I'm Set Free", Velvet Underground, or "Ride Into the Sun". I can't decide. Indecision will be the death of me.

And I want Guided By Voices' "Wondering Boy Poet (Suitcase Version)" on endless repeat in my coffin. And James Brown. He's good for the soul.

― Trevor, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"I'm Set Free" was on my list, too. I had twelve songs on it, so no problems with choices. I also want "I Have Been Floated" by the Olivia Tremor Control, "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring," and "The Whole Shebang" by Grant Lee Buffalo. There were several more that were on the list for the purpose of being a music nazi but that were totally unrelated to funerals.

― Maria, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You had my sarcastic answers. Here are my serious ones:

"Space Oddity," "Waterloo Sunset," and FZ's "Watermelon in Easter Hay."

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If I'm pissed off when I croak, or when I write the will, though, it'll be "I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better When You're Gone" and the Smiths' "Asleep."

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"kids in america", or maybe "centrefold", or maybe "born to lose", by Dean Martin...

― cameron bain, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Li'l Ol Wine Drinker Me" by same

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"When I See You Smile" by Bad English, definitely.

― Ally, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

actually "shades" , also by Dean Martin (written by Lee Heazlewood!) would be pretty good too: "these shades can't hide the way i feel..."

― cameron bain, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Brim Full of Asha'

― stevo, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Lalala lalalalala lalala lalalalala lalala lalalalala lalala lalalalala I just can't get you out of my head"

― jamesmichaelward, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Crimson and Clover -- Joan Jett version.

― dan, Friday, 12 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

the other day, this kid at school told me that i was going to die before i turned 16, and thats in like 2 months. So ive been thinkin, i would want, "build a bridge" limp bizkit, "stand here with me" creed, "Crossroads" bonethugs, "Everything" StereoFuse, "stigmatized" the calling, "screaming infedelities" dashboard confesstional, "the distance" evan and jaron, "always be my baby" mariah carey, "wonderwall" oasis, "blury" puddle of mudd, "ill be missing you" puff daddy, "wherever you will go" the calling. Anyone of those will do.
When i die, i want my funeral to be happy, i want lots of pictures of me and my family and friends and boyfriend put up and I dont want anyone to dress up. I want them all to wear yellow or one of my fav. colors, not black, and i want a casket that everyone can sign and lots of baby yellow roses. Just a room filled with my favorite things. If people start to cry too much, well hell, break out some Nelly and Ja Rule and start breakin it down! ha!

― Les, Thursday, 15 April 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

We'll meet again -Vera Lynn

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Thursday, 15 April 2004 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

journey - "don't stop believin"

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 15 April 2004 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Tina Turner - Simply the Best. as my coffin is lowered into the ground this will play as fireworks go off in time.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Thursday, 15 April 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

The schoolboy's fun sense of humour was reflected when his coffin was carried into the Calvary Church, Prestatyn, to the sound of the Tony Christie hit (Is This The Way To) Amarillo.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

"Teengenerate" by the Dictators

Brilliant idea

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

at least they weren't actually trying to get to amarillo at the time when they were killed.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - "There's No Lights on the Christmas Tree Mother, They're Burning Big Louie Tonight"

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

You're 16 (You're Beautiful, and You're Mine)

― killy (baby lenin pin), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

no surprises

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Funkadelic - "Everybody Is Going to Make It This Time".

― Latin Routes (noodle vague), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

I'd be positively perverse and force everyone to listen to Scott Walker...

Oh I can see them now
Clutching a hankerchief
And blowing me a kiss
Discreetly asking how
How came he died so young
Or was he very old
Is the body still warm
Or is it already cold
All doors are open wide
They grope around inside
At my desk my drawers my trunk
There's nothing left to hide
Some love letters are there
And an old photograph
They've laid my poor soul bare
And now all they do is laugh

Oh I can see them all
So formal and so stiff
Like a seargant at arms
At a policeman's ball
And everybody's pushing
To be the first in line
Their hearts upon their sleeves
Like a ten cent valentine
The old women are there
Too old to give a damn
They've brought along the kids
Who don't know who I am
They're thinking about the price of my funeral bouquet
What they're thinking isn't nice
For now they'll have to pay

Oh I see all of you
All of my phoney friends
Who can't wait for it ends
Who can't wait till it's through
Oh I see all of you
You've been laughing all these years
Now all that you have left
Are a few crocodile tears
Ah you don't even know
That you're entering your hell
As you leave my cemetary
You think you're doing well
With that one who's at your side
You're as proud as you can be
Ah she's going to make you cry
But not the way you cried for me

Oh I can see me now
So cold and so alone
As the flowers slowly die
In my field of little bones
Oh I can see me now
I can see me at the end
Of this voyage that I'm on
Without a love without a friend
Now all this that I see
Is not what I deserve
They really have a nerve
To say these things to me
No girls just bread and water
And your money you must save
For there'll be nothing left for us
When you're dead and in your grave

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

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but i'm totally planning to fake my own death.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

Exactly. x-post, bah.

Have a party, be sad, I don't care. I won't be there! Actually, in fact, don't do anything because I'd be mad if all my friends had a party I couldn't go to.

― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

you'll be dead

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

you don't plan to be at your own funeral?

xpost

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

a live version of the dead playing darkstar. it would be the ultimate middle finger from beyond the grave.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

George Michael: Yeah? Wow. He’s really gone. But you know, I think that if he was here right now, I would probably tell him that it all worked out. And that, um, I’ll be bringing you some salmon rolls right away. In heaven.

George, Sr.: How many times I got to tell this kid chicken wings?

― killy (baby lenin pin), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

okay, i love arrested development too much, but now i'm thinking that it would be awesome to play Europe's "THE FINAL COUNTDOWN" at my funeral.

― killy (baby lenin pin), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

Aerosmith, "Angel"

― Zwan (miccio), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

"Let's Start the Dance" by Hamilton Bohannon might be good.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

U2, "Walk On"

― Zwan (miccio), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

"Ghostbusters"

― Zwan (miccio), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

Peter and the Wolf

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

ONE STEP BEYOND

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 17 January 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

five months pass...

Return To Sender

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Thursday, 29 June 2006 10:13 (eighteen years ago)

When I was seventeen it was "Something I Can Never Have" by Nine Inch Nails. What a funeral that would've been.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Thursday, 29 June 2006 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

theme from Seinfeld

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 29 June 2006 12:42 (eighteen years ago)

Can't Do Nothin' For Ya, Man! by PE

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

Bitches Ain't Shit - Dre

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

Gantz Graf - autechre

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

Come on my Selector - Squarepusher

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

yeah i'm just being fucking stupid now, i was actually serious about Seinfeld though.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 29 June 2006 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

Aqua - Dr Jones

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

I had a conversation about this with my husband a few months ago. Neither of us could come up with anything brilliant, but he did crack me up by suggesting "Let the Eagle Soar." But only if we could persuade John Ashcroft to attend, of course...

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

Beyond the Blue Horizon - Mike Nesmith

It takes a while to get going, so I'd probably lop off the first two minutes or so.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

Ying Yang Twins "Wait (the whisper song)"

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 29 June 2006 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

Bury Me Beneath the Willow, as played by Ricky Skaggs and Tony Rice

― Big Loud Ape Mountain (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 29 June 2006 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players- Believing In You

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 29 June 2006 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

but i'm totally planning to fake my own death.

-- ken c

When's this happening?

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 30 June 2006 02:27 (eighteen years ago)

when i move to dublin.

(and i haven't run up enough of a debt yet)

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 30 June 2006 08:51 (eighteen years ago)

dude, are you serious about your move to dublin or is this some joke?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 30 June 2006 08:52 (eighteen years ago)

i do have plans to go but not for a while yet. still trying to run up a debt.

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 30 June 2006 09:06 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Just sent my father off. He had...

Petite Fleur - Chris Barber and His Jazz Band
Crazy - Patsy Cline
Sweet Georgia Brown - Ella Fitzgerald.

Pretty mainstream stuff I admit. I chose the first one - he loved Brit trad jazz and particularly Chris Barber and it was nice to have something to follow him in that a lot of his friends knew.

― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 8 September 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago)

long ago i decided to play episodes of the golden girls at my funeral. my boyfriend will see to it.

― Surmounter, Saturday, 8 September 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago)

btw, i'm so sorry about your DAD! my thoughts to you.

― Surmounter, Saturday, 8 September 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago)

I would like for Elton John to rewrite one of his crappy lite-rock hits in my honor. The obvious choice is "Honky Cat."

― Oilyrags, Saturday, 8 September 2007 22:22 (seventeen years ago)

The hokey-jokey answer would be "The Ants Go Marching One-By-One", as a sing-along, with an especially jaunty rendition of the lines: and they all go marching - down - in the ground - to get out- of the rain.

The serious answer is: I do not care. My funeral will not be for my pleasure or benefit. It will be a time for the living to gather together in my memory. I'll let them decide what works best for them.

― Aimless, Sunday, 9 September 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago)

It will be a time for the living to gather together in my memory. I'll let them decide what works best for them.

Yes, but just once I'd like to be able to force my aged relatives to sit through some Autechre..."this is for all the times I had to listen to Ruby Murray..."

The theme tune to Golden Girls is great.

― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 9 September 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago)

I don't know the answer to the question, but I'm sorry to hear about your dad, Ned.

― accentmonkey, Sunday, 9 September 2007 15:55 (seventeen years ago)

Queen - Only The Good Die Young

― CaptainLorax, Sunday, 9 September 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago)

Richard Marx - Hazard.mp3

― iiiijjjj, Sunday, 9 September 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago)

GG Allin, "I Wanna Fuck Myself"

― milo z, Sunday, 9 September 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago)

mistah fab - ghost ride the whip

― and what, Sunday, 9 September 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago)

My grandfather had "Rhapsody in Blue" at his funeral.

Fun answer: "So What." Realistically I think Aimless is pretty much on point here.

I do not care. My funeral will not be for my pleasure or benefit. It will be a time for the living to gather together in my memory. I'll let them decide what works best for them.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 9 September 2007 20:40 (seventeen years ago)

Would it look creepy to make a will now that specifically outlines how I want to be buried? I either want cremation or to be dropped in one of those natural/green cemeteries where they just let the bugs finish you off.

― milo z, Sunday, 9 September 2007 20:43 (seventeen years ago)

I don't think it's creepy.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 9 September 2007 20:45 (seventeen years ago)

"Ding Dong the Wicked Witch is Dead"

― Heave Ho, Monday, 10 September 2007 03:21 (seventeen years ago)

twelve years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oanAeie_Tag

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 29 August 2020 04:18 (four years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCdUfAE5Rz8

― pass the cur's dossier (Neanderthal), Saturday, 29 August 2020 04:20 (four years ago)

Van Halen - Dance the Night Away

― trunk's full of pearl and lonestar (PBKR), Saturday, 29 August 2020 18:39 (four years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe2IlYsqdh4

First movement.

― pomentiful (pomenitul), Saturday, 29 August 2020 18:41 (four years ago)

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